[hobbit] HowTo monitor log files

[Benoit list]

Hello guys,
I encounter the same problem that "linuxmasterjedi" :s
My hobbit server says also "No files checked"

Do you have a good advise for this problem embarrassing ???

Thanks by advance

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2008/6/2 L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr>:

> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to monitor LOG files on a Linux OS via the Hobbit client
> monitor 4.2.0. I have some issue : file information are not send back to
> the server. I've checked the ML & the conf file :
>     #                             ************ IMPORTANT ***************
>     #   To monitor a logfile, you *MUST* configure both client-local.cfg
>     #   and hobbit-clients.cfg. If you configure only the client-local.cfg
>     #   file, the client will collect the log data and you can view it in
>     #   the "client data" display, but it will not affect the color of the
>     #   "msgs" status. On the other hand, if you configure only the
>     #   hobbit-clients.cfg file, then there will be no log data to inspect,
>     #   and you will not see any updates of the "msgs" status either.
>
>  BTW, client-local.cfg & hobbit-clients.cfg does not exist anymore ;).
> Anyway, I put this on my client side localclient.cfg file :
>
>        # FILE Check
>        FILE /var/log/messages  SIZE>0 MTIME<1200 yellow
>        FILE /var/log/messages  red     "timed out!"
>        FILE /var/log/messages  red     "abort!"
>
>        # LOG
>        LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red
>
>  ll /var/log/messages
>   -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5530 May 29 16:25 /var/log/messages
>
>  Hobbit is in the "adm" group, it can read the file. So why my Hobbit
> server keep saying "No files checked" ?
>
>   Thanks by advance!
>
>


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